One of the worst industrial disasters in the modern era took place in Bangladesh when the Rana Plaza garment factory collapsed on April 24, 2013, killing more than 1,100 people and injuring some 2,500 ...
A garment worker works at a factory during a countrywide lockdown to try to contain the spread of Covid-19 on July 5, 2021 in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Bangladesh enacted a seven-day lockdown on July 1 in an ...
One year ago this week, the eight-story Rana Plaza garment factory collapsed in Bangladesh’s capital city of Dhaka, killing 1,129 people. The building’s top floors had been added illegally, and their ...
Influential liberals said low-paid manufacturing jobs would help the Global South. They were wrong then—and they’re especially wrong now. A garment worker works at a factory during a countrywide ...